unavailingly

As they looked his head beat the ground again unavailingly, and at the piteous sight a dry sob broke from Norah, and she went on her knees by him.

Mates at Billabong 1911

Corliss asked, unavailingly, for the fourth time after he had got into his cabin.

CHAPTER 11 2010

So England watches trade slipping through her fingers and wails unavailingly.

WANTED: A NEW LAW OF DEVELOPMENT 2010

And there is fine work from Ian McElhinney, strangely resembling Bergman himself, as Karin's semi-detached father; from Justin Salinger, as her unavailingly devoted husband; and from Dimitri Leonidas as her sexually tormented brother.

Through a Glass Darkly 2010

I knew the door was unbolted; though it was fitted with brackets for a bolt, I had searched unavailingly for the bolt itself before retiring.

Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

For the next four hours, he sat there unavailingly, emanating gloom and rage.

More than political paranoia 2008

Clennam tried to do honour to the meal, but unavailingly.

Little Dorrit 2007

There had once been a water – mill beneath; the tide foaming and chafing round the few rotten stakes, and fragments of machinery that yet remained, seemed to dart onward, with a new impulse, when freed from the obstacles which had unavailingly attempted to stem its headlong course.

Oliver Twist 2007

Some indeed had attempted quite unavailingly to convince her that Rome was not nearly such a desirable place as it was reported to be, and others had gone so far as to suggest behind her back that she was dreadfully “stuck up” about “that Rome of hers.”

Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006

Thus the unhappy pair unavailingly recriminated, till my cousin

Clarissa Harlowe 2006